Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-21
Tho White Cross soc,ery

frightened q wei than hurt. The
water in the cistern was seven feet deep.
Tho White Cross society.
70 the Press and Dakotaian: The
Rev. Mi. Bonn, rector of CHRIST church
ts making quiet but decided arrange
ments to inaugurate this society in this
town. No time seemed SO propltions
and suited IS the present when such
articles appear ar that of yesterdays
Press and Dakctaian, and especially
when the editor apologizingly says:
To-day's chapter upon the social evil,
and the highly moral lesson it contains,
is official matter which We are under
contract to print. We do not usually
give 80 much space to q discussion of
this subject. However, the report of
the council committee is eloquent and
interesting reading.
Why an apology? Is it not the duty
OF the press? Is it not o teacher OF
public morals? This abomination has
been ranking and fostering in our COM
munlty until it seems indelicate and
indecent to be alluded TO, and SO 1t goes
on untouched. Mr.. Bonn has secured
the services of Bishop Hare who will be
here in September to deliver the in
augural address. The history end pur.
poses of this society are as follows:
Miss Alice Hopkins is the teacher
OF this movement. Born under the
| shadow of Cambridge university, the
daughter of a former president of the
British Scientific association, this Quilt
waited lady of the church of England
passed her ~novitiate as q christian worker
in London under the guardianship Of
Canon Wilkinson, now bishop of Truro.
Sorrow oonsscrated her to ~unexampled
mission at which she has been for years
engaged.
The gentleman whom she was to have
married was q physician. a young man
OF great heart as well as talent, and it is
said that his dying request was for her
to engage in the work of promoting
social purity. The preventive aspect of
this work has been developed by Miss
Hopkins, as by no one else. She is
the founder OF the white cross movement
for young men, under the patronage Of
the bishop OF Durham which in three
years extended over Great Britain in
every city of any size, and is now making
rapid strides under the auspices of the
Episcopal church 10 the United States
The white cross pledge reads as fol-
lows:
promise by the help of God,
I. To treat ell INIT with respect
and endeavor to protect them from
wrong and degradation.
2. To endeayor to put down all in
decent language and coarse iests.
3. 10 MAINTAIN the law of purity a
equally binding upon men and women.
a. To endeavor to spread these prin-
ciples among my companions, and to tr.
to help my younger brothers.
5. 70 use every possible means t.
fulfill the command. keep Tbysei
Pure"
The principle on which this move
ment rests is that to be forewarned i
the only way to be ~forearmed; tina
virtue based upon knowledge is safe
than innocence based upon ignoranc
: and that the recital of the ereatiy,
mysteries from O mothers lips imparts t.
the child's mind such o sense of solemn
, ty and s~acredness as cannot be otherwis
:. obtained. The girl and sven more especi
ally the boy VIC feeis u %conidentia
freedom in bringing to the home sanctu
J airy the mysterious questions sure I
. asked end answered somewhere will like
ly maintain purity of word and deed eve
: amid youths manifold temptation
The child will have its questions answer
!, ed end if the parents do not answer tnel
: the devil will. And right there durin
the chiid's formative years, probably,
9 godly and iudicious persons answers :
these questions will be of more benef
J too the child than when answered by tt
! "father of lies
d To this work the rector of Chris
o church asks the hearty cooperation c
every person why loves youth and purit
. of heart. Yours traiy'
. Kahn & Co., received the following t
day
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